OPEN CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO HOST A FUTURE CARFMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE The CARFMS Executive is inviting all those who may be interested in hosting a CARFMS Annual Conference to submit an email outlining the following: What year you would be open to doing so? Please note that CARFMS Annual Conferences are being scheduled for the following years and venues: 2018 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 21-25, 2018 CARFMS Annual Conferences are held usually in early to mid-May. Your university affiliation and an indication that your specific unit and central administration would be open to hosting a CARFMS Annual Conference in the year specified. CARFMS is able to provide strong organizational and administrative support for its annual conferences but relies on the local annual conference organizing committees to raise sufficient funds through various sources such as SSHRC Connections Grants; external donors and sponsors; and so on. Previous experience in organizing academic conferences and/or symposiums and/or workshops or other major events. CARFMS Annual Conferences are attracting more and more participants each year and typically have over 200 registered participants. Given the nature of the field, CARFMS Annual Conferences draw a large and growing contingent of international scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students. CARFMS Annual Conferences also include open public lectures and special panel sessions that can attract a diverse audience from the local community in addition to the conference participants. There are a wide range of logistical, program planning, and media related activities, for instance, that are necessary for hosting a conference of this size and nature. Any other relevant information that would be of interest to the CARFMS Executive in assessing the feasibility of your expression of interest to host a CARFMS Annual Conference. Are there any relevant historic, cultural, or other points of interest, for example, that may be incorporated into the annual conference program? Many CARFMS Annual Conference participants look to spending some additional time at the conference venue and would be interested in seeing local attractions, natural or historic sites, museums, galleries, theatre, etc. Please outline some of these possibilities. All expressions of interest and/or related questions should be directed to Professor Michaela Hynie, CARFMS President, at mhynie@yorku.ca and copied to Michele Millard, CARFMS Administrator, at...

Editor(s): Morgan Poteet, Shiva Nourpanah ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-9074-8 ISBN-10: 1-4438-9074-X Knowledge of the integration process for refugees is often subsumed under the broader category of “immigrants”. This book focuses on this process for refugees, including the structural and systemic challenges they face as they integrate in their new host societies, and how they respond to such challenges. The book provides a critical analysis...

Have you presented at CARFMS16? We would like to let you know of the opportunity for publication. A call will go out end of August / beginning of September for paper submission from CARFMS16 that will be peer reviewed for potential edited volume in a journal or edited volume of a book. Check our website regularly for more updates!

The organizer of a national conference on refugees in Winnipeg knows her subject too well. As a child, Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe and her family fled Laos and ended up in rural Manitoba in the dead of winter in a three-room house with no running water and a wood stove for heat. “We had a terrible experience,” said Stobbe, who was seven in December 1979, when her family arrived in a southern Manitoba town she declined to...